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************************************************************ catherine.driscoll@adelaide.edu.au wrote on 5/12/2001 ************************************************************ Program for the Adelaide Research Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences (Adelaide University) conference on

Nation/States (13 - 16 December)

Keynotes:
Rey Chow (Brown University)
Simon During (University of Melbourne)
Fredric Jameson (Duke University)

Other speakers include:
Ian Buchanan, Paul Carter, Tim Flannery, Ken Gelder, Helen Irving, Paul Kelly, Joan Kerr, Stuart Macintyre, Stephen Muecke, Fiona Nicoll, Mackenzie Wark

registration information follows the program
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THURSDAY 13 DECEMBER

from 11am (Gallery Function Room, Art Gallery of South Australia)
Registration

12noon (Gallery Function Room, Art Gallery of South Australia)

Welcome: Kaurna People and Adelaide University

12.30-1.30 (Gallery Function Room, Art Gallery of South Australia)
Plenary 1:
Lester Irabinna-Rigney, Youngerrendi First Nations Centre
(Flinders University of South Australia) - “t.b.a.”

PARALLEL SESSIONS 1.30-3.00

Panel 1: Reconciliation and the Australian Nation-State

(Gallery Function Room, Art Gallery of South Australia)

Robyn Michelle Tucker, Department of English (Adelaide University),

“Irreconcilable Desires: Towards Theory and Nation”

Angelika Tyrone, Department of Cultural Studies (Flinders University),

“The Four Rs - Reconciliation, Racism, Rights and the Rule of Law”

Stephen Jenkins, Department of Politics (Adelaide University), “Indigenous Self-determination”

Panel 2: Re-thinking the 'refugee'

(Pacific Gallery, South Australian Museum)

Angela Mitropoulos (: : x b o r d e r : :),

“The Barbed End of Human Rights”

Christina Gordan, School of Communication and Cultural Studies (Curtin University),

“The Smooth and the Striated: Reading the refugee crisis in Australia”

Alexandra English, Department of Political Science (University of Melbourne),

“Detain and punish: the nation-state, the society of control, and the refugee”

Panel 3: Writing Nation/States

(Gallery Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia)

Larissa McLean Davies, English Department (University of Melbourne),

“Mapping Old Ground: reading alternative landscapes in the fiction of Elizabeth Jolley”

Lachlan MacDowall, English and Cultural Studies (University of Melbourne),

“The State Jackal”

Dr Brigitta Olubas, School of English (University of New South Wales),

“Immigration and identification: returning to The First Journey”

3.00-3.30 COFFEE BREAK (Armoury Lawns, South Australian Museum)

PARALLEL SESSIONS 3.30-5.00

Panel 4: Migrant Lives

(Pacific Gallery, South Australian Museum)

Dr Peter Hornsby, Visiting Research Fellow, Psychology Department (Adelaide University),

“Attitudes and Expectations of British Migrants coming to Australia in the early 1970s - a retrospective”

Terri-Ann White, Institute for Advanced Studies (University of Western Australia),

“National Claims”

Dr Phyll McKillup, Visiting Scholar, Department of Women's Studies (Flinders University),

“Discussion of Some Migrant and Australian families, housed in a constructed environment - a planned space”

Panel 5: Empire to Diaspora: Negotiating Identities

(Gallery Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia)

Dr Margaret Allen, Department of Social Inquiry (Adelaide University),

“A 'Hindoo' Christian visits colonial Australia”

Edith Miguda, Department of Social Inquiry (Adelaide University),

“Diasporic Engagements and the Making of a Host Nation: Examining Identities - Africans in Australia”

Robin Secomb, Department of History (University of Adelaide),

“Knowing one's place: Laura Fowler Hope and issues of identity in the British Empire”

Panel 6: Indigenous narratives and the nation-state

(Gallery Function Room, Art Gallery of South Australia)

Dr Anne Brewster, School of English (University of New South Wales),

“Indigenous literature: Reconciliation, memory and national self-fashioning”

Sarah Fairhead, Department of Social Inquiry (Adelaide University),

“Indigenous soldiers and citizenship”

Associate Professor Kay Schaffer, Department of Social Inquiry (Adelaide University),

“Indigenous Narratives, Human Rights and the Nation/State”

5.00-6.00 RECEPTION (Armoury Lawns, South Australian Museum)
includes book launch:
Dr Anthony Burke, In Fear of Security: Australia's Invasion Anxiety
(Pluto Australia, 2001); to be launched by Mackenzie Wark


FRIDAY 14 DECEMBER

from 9am Registration (Gallery Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia)

9.15-10.00 (Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia)

Plenary 2:

Dr Ian Buchanan, School of English, Journalism & European Languages

(University of Tasmania) - “National Allegory in Australia”

10.00-10.45 (Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia)

Plenary 3:

Dr Tim Flannery, History (Adelaide University); Director (South Australian

Museum) - “Nations & Ecology”

10.45-11.15 COFFEE BREAK (Museum Lawns, South Australian Museum)

PARALLEL SESSIONS 11.15-12.45

Panel 7: Australian Museums and Memorialisation

(Gallery Function Room, Art Gallery of South Australia)

Dr Elizabeth McMahon, Editor (Australian Humanities Review); Research Associate, Department of English (University of Sydney),

“Tourism Immemorial: Peculiar Affect and the Evacuated Past”

Dr Catherine De Lorenzo, Architecture Program Faculty of the Built Environment (University of New South Wales),

“Redesigning nation and reconfiguring memory: a comparative analysis”

Associate Professor Bobby Banerjee, Director - DBA Program School of Management (RMIT University) & Dr Goldie Osuri, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Inquiry (La Trobe University)

“National Identity and the Melbourne Museum: Organization of an Alter-multiple Spacetime”

Panel 8: Diasporas and Ethnicity

(Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia)

Jayita Ray, School of Political and International Studies (Flinders University),

“Refugees in their chosen homeland: the case of the Muhajirs of Pakistan”

Greg Brown (University of Texas at Austin; Visiting Research Fellow, Australian Centre, University of Melbourne),

“Coping with Long-distance Nationalism”

Dr Pal Ahluwalia, Department of Politics (Adelaide University),

“Fanon's Nausea: The Hegemony of the White Nation”

11.15-11.45 COFFEE BREAK (Museum Lawns, South Australian Museum)

11.45-12.45 (Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia)
Plenary 4:
Associate Professor Ken Gelder, Department of English with Cultural
Studies (University of Melbourne) - “The 'un-Australian' Goth: Towards a
dislocated Australian Subject”

12.45-1.45 LUNCH (Museum Lawns, South Australian Museum)

PARALLEL SESSIONS 1.45-3.15

Panel 9: Sovereignty and Nationalism

(Pacific Gallery, South Australian Museum)

Dr Anthony Burke, Department of Politics (Adelaide University),

“The perverse perseverance of sovereignty”

Dr Stephen Turner, Research Fellow, English Department (Auckland University),

“Stakes of Sovereignty/Stakes of Knowledge”

Dr Paul James, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts (Monash University),

“Terror, Post-nationalism and the State”

Panel 10: Illegal Immigration?

(Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library)

Lara Palombo, Social Inquiry (Adelaide University),

“Creating Probable Stories: Processes of Exclusion and Moments of Deterritorialization within the Nation”

Anna Szorenyi, Centre for Women's Studies & Gender Research (Monash University),

“‘For those who've come across the seas’: Refugees and the nation in Australian media”

Dr Don McMaster (Visiting Research Fellow, Politics Department, Adelaide University),

“White Australia to Detention: Restriction and Racism”

Panel 11: Nation and Identity

(Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia)

Stephen Crofts, Film, TV & Media Studies (University of Auckland),

“Components of National Cultures: A Comparison of the Social Formations of Australia and New Zealand”

Paul Tsoundarou, Department of Politics (Adelaide University),

“The continued relevance of Sovereignty in a globalising world: Yugoslavia and its successor states”

Guy Dundas (Adelaide University),

“Australia and New Zealand: Nation-state or Nation-states?”

3.15-3.45 COFFEE BREAK (Museum Lawns, South Australian Museum)


3.45-4.45 (Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia)
Plenary 5:

Dr Mackenzie Wark, Visiting Professor, Comparative Literature (State University of New York, Binghampton) - “Asylum in and Asylum >From the Nation-State”

5.15-6.15 RECEPTION (Settlement Square, Migration Museum of South Australia)
includes access to exhibition “The Federation Roadshow”

6.15-7.00

Plenary Panel: Art, History or Politics: The Migration Museum's exhibition 'The Federation Roadshow'

(Migration Museum of South Australia)

Viv Szekeris (Director, Migration Museum, History Trust of South Australia)

Christine Finnimore (Curator, Migration Museum, History Trust of South Australia)

Bill Seager (Curator, South Australian Maritime Museum)

Daryl Pfitzner Milika (artist)

SATURDAY 15 DECEMBER

from 9.30am REGISTRATION (Elder Hall Foyer, Adelaide University)

10.00-11.20
Plenary 6: Stephen Muecke & Fiona Nicoll
(Elder Hall, Adelaide University)

Professor Stephen Muecke (Writing, Journalism and Social Inquiry, University of Technology Sydney)  “The Unification and Fragmentation of Culture”

Dr Fiona Nicoll (Institute for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney)  “Australia: what do YOU make of it”

11.20-11.40 COFFEE BREAK (Foyer, Elder Hall, Adelaide University)

PARALLEL SESSIONS 11.40-1.10

Panel 12: Celebrating Federation

(Gallery Function Room, Art Gallery of South Australia)

Associate Professor Stephen Alomes, Australian & International Studies (Deakin University),

“2001 A Federationist Odyssey: Contemporary Celebrations and the Australian Past”

Leanne White, Communications and Media Studies, School of Political and Social Inquiry (Monash University),

“The Bicentenary of Australia and the Centenary of Federation: Celebration of a Nation and Building on a Strong Foundation”

Professor John Milfull, Director, Centre for European Studies Arts and Social Sciences (University of NSW),

“A New Federalism?: Representing diversity, resisting fragmentation: The relevance of German and European Debates on Federalism to Australian futures”

Panel 13: ANZACS

(Pacific Gallery , South Australian Museum)

Dr Martin Ball, “‘Not with a vote but a War’ - conceiving the nation”

Ben Wellings, School of Social Sciences (Australian National University),

“Anzac, Republicanism and Australian Nationalism”

Robin Mayes, School of Communication and Cultural Studies (Curtin University of Technology),

“Albany's Anzacs: Localising National Identity”

Panel 14: Federation Politics

(Gallery Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia)

Wesley Metham (University of Technology, Sydney),

“Contradictions of Contemporary Civic Identity: Nationalism, Postmodernism and Australian Republicanism”

Dr Ron Blaber, Communication and Cultural Studies (Curtin University of Technology),

“Menzies Desk: Towards a new ‘Feudalism’”

Professor Allan Patience (Visiting Fellow in Political Science Research School of Social Sciences, ANU; Professor of Political Science, Victoria University of Technology Melbourne),

“The Centenary - and Future - of Federation: Manufacturing an Orthodox Consensus for the Twenty-First Century?”

Panel 15: Federation Images

(Armoury Room, South Australian Museum)

Gabrielle Wolf, Department of History (University of Melbourne),

“Australian Immigrants and Aborigines: Outsiders to the Australian National Stage?”

Vivonne Thwaites (University of South Australia and freelance curator),

“Karrawirraparri, the River Red Gum tree, the CWA, Aboriginal art and making connections with this place we call home”

Professory Marian Quartly, School of Historical Studies (Monash University),

“Women Citizens, 1902-1912”

1.10-2.00 LUNCH (Elder Hall Foyer, Adelaide University)

2.00-3.00

Plenary 7: Helen Irving & Stuart Macintyre

(Elder Hall, Adelaide University)

Professor Helen Irving (Law, University of Sydney)  “2001: The Year of Living Cautiously”

Professor Stuart Macintyre (Faculty of Arts, Department of History, University of Melbourne)  “Bicentennial blues, centennnial serendipity”

3.20-4.40

Plenary 8: Joan Kerr & Paul Carter

(Elder Hall, Adelaide University)

Professor Joan Kerr (Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University)  “Artless History: the spectacular results of Centenary of Federation Funding”

Paul Carter (ARC Professorial Research Fellow, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne)  “t.b.a.”

4.40-6.00 COFFEE BREAK (Foyer, Elder Hall, Adelaide University)

6.00-7.00

Plenary 9: Paul Kelly

(Elder Hall, Adelaide University)

Paul Kelly (Author and International Editor, The Australian)  “t.b.a.”

From 8.00pm CONFERENCE DINNER (Jahz Cafe, East End Adelaide)



SUNDAY 16 DECEMBER

from 9.00am REGISTRATION (Gallery Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia)

9.45-11.00 (venue t.b.a.)

Plenary 10:

Professor Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities (Dept. of Comparative Literature & Dept. of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University)  “Sentimental Returns: On the Uses of the Everyday in the Recent Films of Zhang Yimou and Wong Kar-wai”

11.00-11.30 COFFEE BREAK (Sculpture Garden, Art Gallery of South Australia)

11.30-1.00 (Gallery Function Room, Art Gallery of South Australia)

Plenary 11:

Professor Simon During, Robert Wallace Professor (Department of English with Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne)  “Literature and Globalisation”

1.00-1.45 LUNCH (Sculpture Garden, Art Gallery of South Australia)

PARALLEL SESSIONS 1.45-3.15

Panel 16: Federalism

(Gallery Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia)

Professor Tony Chadwick, School of French (Memorial University of Newfoundland),

“Nationalism and the Federated State”

Dr Ken Coghill, Director, Governance & Government Unit, Parliamentary Studies Unit (Monash University),

“Fuzzy Federalism”

Maev O'Collins, Visiting Fellow, Political And Social Change RSPAS (Australian National University),

“Norfolk Island and the Commonwealth of Australia: Imperial Expansion or Reluctant Governance”

Panel 17: Local-National-Global

(Pacific Gallery, South Australian Museum)

Stefani Strazzari, Department of Social Inquiry (Adelaide University) & Dr Lou Wilson, Centre for Labour Research (Adelaide University),

“Contested States: global - local debates from an Australian perspective”

Associate Professor Judith Gill (Director, Research Centre for Gender Studies, University of South Australia) and Dr Sue Howard (Education, University of South Australia),

“Somewhere to call home? Schooling and a sense of place and belonging in an increasingly globalised world “

Associate Professor Michael Heng (School of Accounting and Information Systems, University of South Australia),

“Thinking About National Models”. To be presented by Kym Thorne.

Panel 18: Race and National Identity

(Gallery Function Room, Art Gallery of South Australia)

Jacquie Kasunic, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building (University of Technology, Sydney),

“A politics of grievance: the rise of 'white' centrality and authority in rural Australia”

Dr Christina Twomey, Department of History (Adelaide University),

“Australian Women POWs and the allegory of threat in World War II”

Yoshikazu Shiobara, Graduate School of Human Relations (Keio University, Tokyo); Visiting Fellow (Australian National University),

“The unexpected consequence of 'critical multiculturalism': A case study of the 'EAC renaming controversy' in New South Wales, Australia”

3.15-4.45 (Gallery Function Room, Art Gallery of South Australia)

Plenary 12:

Professor Fredric Jameson (William A. Lane Jr., Professor of Comparative Literature and French, Duke University)  “Myths of Modernity”

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Abstracts available @
http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/ARCHSS/nstates_abstracts2.asp

Registration information and registration form available @
http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/ARCHSS/nstates_text.htm

Other information for delegates @
http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/ARCHSS/nstates_info.asp





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